Rand, Jacki Thompson.
Kiowa Humanity and the Invasion of the State. - 1 online resource (211 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. The American Problem -- Chapter 2. The Kiowa Scheme of Life -- Chapter 3. Values of the State and U.S. Indian Policy -- Chapter 4. Young Kiowa Men, Kiowa Social Values, and the Politics of Rations -- Chapter 5. Fictions of the Nineteenth-Century American Assimilation Policy -- Chapter 6. Households of Humanity -- Chapter 7. Conclusion -- Appendix A: U.S. Indian Appropriations and Disbursements, 1860-1910 -- Appendix B: Government Document Sources of Population Figures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Kiowa Humanity and the Invasion of the State illuminates the ways in which Kiowas on the southern plains dealt with the U.S. government's efforts to control them after they were forced onto a reservation by an 1867 treaty. The overarching effects of colonial domination resembled those suffered by other Native groups at the time-a considerable loss of land and population decline, as well as a continual erosion of the Kiowas' political, cultural, economic, and religious sovereignty and traditions. Although readily acknowledging these far-reaching consequences, Jacki Thompson Rand sees the root impact of colonialism and the concomitant Kiowa responses as centered less on policy disputes than on the disruptions to their daily life and to their humanity. Colonialism attacked the Kiowas on the most human, everyday level-through starvation, outbreaks of smallpox, emotional disorientation, and continual difficulties in securing clothing and shelter, and the Kiowas' responses and counterassertions of sovereignty thus tended to focus on efforts to feed their people, sustain the physical community, and preserve psychic equilibrium.
9780803239715
Kiowa Indians -- Government relations.
Kiowa Indians -- History.
Kiowa philosophy.
United States -- Politics and government.
United States -- Race relations.
United States -- Social policy.
Electronic books.
E99.K5 -- R36 2008eb
323.1197073
Kiowa Humanity and the Invasion of the State. - 1 online resource (211 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. The American Problem -- Chapter 2. The Kiowa Scheme of Life -- Chapter 3. Values of the State and U.S. Indian Policy -- Chapter 4. Young Kiowa Men, Kiowa Social Values, and the Politics of Rations -- Chapter 5. Fictions of the Nineteenth-Century American Assimilation Policy -- Chapter 6. Households of Humanity -- Chapter 7. Conclusion -- Appendix A: U.S. Indian Appropriations and Disbursements, 1860-1910 -- Appendix B: Government Document Sources of Population Figures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Kiowa Humanity and the Invasion of the State illuminates the ways in which Kiowas on the southern plains dealt with the U.S. government's efforts to control them after they were forced onto a reservation by an 1867 treaty. The overarching effects of colonial domination resembled those suffered by other Native groups at the time-a considerable loss of land and population decline, as well as a continual erosion of the Kiowas' political, cultural, economic, and religious sovereignty and traditions. Although readily acknowledging these far-reaching consequences, Jacki Thompson Rand sees the root impact of colonialism and the concomitant Kiowa responses as centered less on policy disputes than on the disruptions to their daily life and to their humanity. Colonialism attacked the Kiowas on the most human, everyday level-through starvation, outbreaks of smallpox, emotional disorientation, and continual difficulties in securing clothing and shelter, and the Kiowas' responses and counterassertions of sovereignty thus tended to focus on efforts to feed their people, sustain the physical community, and preserve psychic equilibrium.
9780803239715
Kiowa Indians -- Government relations.
Kiowa Indians -- History.
Kiowa philosophy.
United States -- Politics and government.
United States -- Race relations.
United States -- Social policy.
Electronic books.
E99.K5 -- R36 2008eb
323.1197073